In answer to the making a good living:

Historically, record labels, then streaming becoming the norm allowing the collision between record labels and streaming services driving down the artist’s cut. Now increasingly so more recently, Live Nation/Ticketmaster and similar live event conglomerates taking bigger cuts and liberties from the last line of revenue traditionally successful artists have. And it’s at every level, there will be a local event promoter behaving as the live nation of local music in your area.

For new artists, most people discover music via streaming recommendations these days, if the algorithm doesn’t smile on a given artist for whatever reason, they won’t get played, and therefore they won’t get signed (given more and more up and coming artists self publish their earliest stuff these days)

The amount of effort necessary doesn’t make it worth it usually

Ah you figured it out,

Was going to say if you’ve not got any alarms set, an application will be (ab)using the system alarm functionality to do something at a scheduled time

Seems a little odd for signal to use it for scheduled messages, but that’s what’s going on regardless

I assume this is coming at some point, tbh

I personally reckon they’re working on something YAbridge-esque to allow people to bring their VSTs to the push in standalone mode. If they can actually nail that, it’s an absolute no brainer to then release a full Linux version of the DAW and finally allow people like me to make the switch

Every time I’ve tried to run Ableton on Linux over the years (most recently about Christmas last year), it’s the VST support that lets me down. I’ve got hundreds of VSTs I’ve used in various projects over the past couple of decades and I can’t switch unless I know they all work properly—projects not loading or sounding different is unacceptable. I need to be able to open anything I’ve worked on over the years and be able to get right into the creativity without tinkering, as that is what I already have today.

Until that day, I’ve got to begrudgingly keep windows around.

You would not want to do this for latency reasons

Holy shit that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time

I remember their circa 2010 remixes were pretty great

Edit: cool track, thanks for sharing OP

If a dead thing would pickle, pretty much everything in the sea would end up pickled alive

So… err… What are those people supposed to do about it?

Order corn

A lot of Arnie and no “hasta la vista, baby”

Baffling

I’m fairly convinced this comment was generated by an AI too.

Something off here

The latest version of Android allows you to plug your phone into a screen and use it like a desktop

If you mean to use full desktop applications on the go, they aren’t really designed to work on small touch screens. Your best bet for that kind of thing is an ultrabook or netbook style laptop, but that’s not gonna fit in most pockets.

Perhaps something in the steam deck form factor could work

A complete failure of modern society

I think it’s worth understanding that tinyconfig is the result of a lot of effort into finding how much you can strip back the kernel and have it still (kinda) work. It’s realistically as stripped back as you can get—you don’t even get access to storage devices by default.

I’m curious about where your requirements have come from, as if the kernel was literally just tty and ethernet, you basically wouldn’t be able to do anything with it.

That’s probably what the drugs are for

Nearly the same for me, but it was closer to the end of June that I moved.

I’ve not contributed to Reddit since, and only really occasionally browse it from my computer when I’m looking for something in particular now.

Kinda helped by the fact the Reddit I used to enjoy seems to be more or less dead anyway. Weird bot filled comment sections, ads shoved in your face, weird monetising features no one asked for, increasingly weird moderation.

I used to use a similar system until I switched to a password manager. Convenience is a big factor, it’s nice to not have to think about logging in. Also coupled with that a secure password is a long password, so not having to type it in is a bonus.

The person says that, since the beginning of the password is unique, its “unhackable”, and that the attacker would need like 3 samples of the password to figure out their system.

I’ve had my data leaked more than 3 times, it’s not an unlikely scenario that someone could get a list of passwords used by someone.

Also once their system is compromised, they have to come up with a new system, then go and change every password. Which if it was me would be hundreds of places. With a password manager there’s no reason not to have completely unique passwords for everything, so if there is a leak, oh well, just change that password.

I thought Withings already sold something that did that

But it’s piss

And it’s not out yet

Hahahahahaha

I thought a week ago everyone was at least getting 2 dolls

Seems like he can’t even deliver on that